STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- When an iconic Staten Island bakery teams up with a hit NBC-TV show, it can only be a recipe for success.

On Friday, Holtermann's Bakery in Great Kills welcomed the cast and crew of the critically acclaimed series, "The Blacklist," starring the wonderful James Spader ("Boston Legal," "sex, lies & videotape" and "The Practice.")

Spader's creepy-hammy Red Reddington has been described as "a supercriminal, a former FBI agent who disappeared to the dark side for 20 years and has now resurfaced, promising to help his old colleagues apprehend some of his more recent colleagues."

Why Holtermann's?

Apparently an advance scout for "The Blacklist" was surfing the web and fell in love with the layout of the Island institution, which has been whipping up breads, old-fashioned cookies, Danishes and other treats from its Arthur Kill Road location in Great Kills for the past 134 years. The scout came out to Holtermann's two weeks ago to see the location "live" and that cinched it, according to bakery manager Jill Holtermann Bowers, who said Spader and the crew couldn't have been nicer.